Pseudolycoriella capillosa Vilkamaa, Hippa & Mohrig, 2012

Mohrig, Werner, Kauschke, Ellen & Broadley, Adam, 2018, New black fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) from Eastern Australia, Zootaxa 4450 (2), pp. 203-241 : 232-233

Pseudolycoriella capillosa Vilkamaa, Hippa & Mohrig, 2012

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Pseudolycoriella capillosa Vilkamaa, Hippa & Mohrig, 2012 [ Vilkamaa et al. (2012c): 12 –13, fig. 12 a–c].

Material. 1 male, 7.vi.1978, Australia, New South Wales, Victoria Park, Lismore, rainforest, leg. B.J. Loudon, ASCT 00053707 ( ASCU).

Additional description. Male. Head. Dark brown. Eye bridge 3 facets wide. Antenna brown; 4th flagellomere with l/w index of 2.5, hairs erect and somewhat longer than the diameter of the basal node; neck rather long, brown. Palpus pale, 3-segmented, basal segment with 2–3 bristles, without a deepened sensory area. Thorax. Brown. Postpronotum bare. Wing brownish, R1 = 1/2 R; R5 without ventral macrotrichia; C = 2/3 w; y shorter than x, without macrotrichia; posterior wing veins without macrotrichia. Haltere brownish. Coxae and legs brown; apex of fore tibia with a wide comb-like row of bristles; spurs of middle and hind tibiae equal in size, slightly longer than the diameter of the apex; claws without teeth. Abdomen. Brown. Gonocoxites with dense hairs at the basal third of the inner ventral margin; gonostylus prolonged and somewhat curved, the apex with short dense hairs and a long subapical whiplash hair (distinct spines are not visible between the hairs). Tegmen wider than long. Aedeagus short. Body length: 3.0 mm.

Comments. The species is characterized by having a prolonged and slightly curved gonostylus, with dense hairs at the apex, no visible spines among the hairs, a long subapical whiplash hair and dense hairs at the basal third of the ventral inner side of the gonocoxites.

Distribution. Australia: New South Wales; New Caledonia.

Figures

FIGURE 21. Pseudolycoriella capillosa Vilkamaa, Hippa & Mohrig. A. Hypopygium; B. FlagEllomErEs 4–5; C. HEaD With palpi anD basal sEgmEnts of flagEllomErEs; D. Tibial organ; E. Wing.